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The aim of the paper is to analyze and describe current knowledge and application of agile methods, tools and techniques in foundries in Czech and Slovakian foundries. The motivation of the research is increasing need of customer-focused management and competitiveness. Based on 2022 survey results and comparison with original authors research within industrial companies worldwide (2021), differences and similarity will be defined and described. Areas of research interest are project, program, and project portfolio management within the companies. The results of the research are presented in the final part of the paper.

The aim of the paper is to analyze and describe recent application of management tools in the enterprises worldwide including their utilization and trends in timeline compared to industrial companies in Olomouc region, Czech Republic. The main data source for presented paper is the research performed by Bain & Company, Inc. (BC) which concentrates on surveying of management tools in companies worldwide since the year 1993, while primary research was performed by authors in companies that produces and customizes metal parts for automotive and aerospace industry. The motivation behind this paper is based on effort to make students and academics in management focus on most recent and powerful management tools to boost successful business. The latest survey of BC has more than 14,700 respondents from more than 70 countries in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America, and is probably the most comprehensive systematic long-term study in the world. The management tools in the top ten list vary in time, but four of them remain since 1993 (however some of them temporarily disappeared): Benchmarking, Customer satisfaction, Total quality management and Vision and mission statement.

The article presents the results of a study of project managers involved in improving teams at an international industrial enterprise. The enterprise mass produces and customises metal parts for the transportation industry. The authors of the article conducted and evaluated a survey of project team managers involved in improving and manufacturing products and related processes at an international industrial enterprise which produces casts for the aviation industry. The article offers recommendations for remunerating work teams.

A large portion of industrial projects fail in one or more parameters of project goals. Therefore, authors of the paper have focused on identifying the failure roots through a survey performed among industrial companies from automotive, foundry & metallurgy and aerospace area located in the Czech Republic. Based on the analysis of projects structure, the paper has defined which parameter most critically affect projects success or unsuccess in the specific sample of companies of all sizes. The paper focuses on and discusses in detail the projects deadline, budget and quality as key parameters which exceeding causes the most often project failures.